Luggage tag strap



Oct, 20, 1953 M. L. DUSKIN ,7 7

LUGGAGE TAG STRAP Filed Jan. 25, 1952 K 725 2710?? MorzyLsLDzw/zn I WW 15/25 Patented Oct. 20, 1 953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LUGGAGE TAG STRAP Morris L. Duskin, Chicago, 111.

Application January 23, 1952, Serial No. 267,881

5 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a luggage tag or the like, and more particularly to means for securing identification tags to luggage or the like.

It is an important object of the present invention to provide a strap for identification tags which utilizes a single fastening means to form a major and a minor loop, one for receiving the tag and the other to receive the article to which the tag is to be fastened.

It is a further important object of the present invention to provide a novel strap for connecting an identification tag or the like to luggage or similar articles.

It is a further important object of the present invention to provide a strap for identification tags which will hold the tag against movement alon the strap.

- Other objects of the present invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the specification and the accompanying drawings.

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a luggage tag constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken substantially along the line II-II of Fig. 1; and

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the luggage tag of Fig.1.

As shown on the drawings:

The reference numeral I designates a conventional identification tag of the type which is adapted to be secured to luggage and the like. The identification tag is adapted to receive a card such as indicated at l I in Fig. 2 beneath a cellophane window l2 in the tag. As seen in Fig. 2, the tag comprises a pair of strips l5 and I6 which are secured together by means of stitching I! except at the ends 18 where the card H is to be inserted.

For receiving the strap 2| of the present invention by means of which the tag can be attached to luggage or other articles, the free ends of the strips and i 6 have registering opening I 9 and 20. The strap is so constructed as to provide a minor loop 23 for engagement through the openings l3 and of the identification tag l0 and a major loop 24 for engaging the handle or similar part of luggage or the like.

The strap is preferably formed from a single strip of material, such as leather. The strap 2! has a male snap fastening element 26 at one end 2? thereof for coaction with a female fastening element 28 spaced from the male fastening element 26 by approximately the length of the minor loop 23. It will be observed that the male fasten- 2 ing element 26 projects from the inner nonexposed surface 3!] of the strap while the female fastening element 28 opens at the outer exposed surface 3| of the strap.

The strap is provided with a narrow tongue portion 33 at the end. 21 of the strap which car-, ries the male fastening element 26. This tongue portion 33 is threaded through the opening 20 in the under strip l6 and then through the opening it in the upper strip I5 to engage the tag in the minor loop. The tongue portion terminates in a shoulder 34 (Figure 3) which is adapted to oppose the underside of the tag to position the tag on the minor loop.

For further positioning of the tag, the opposite end of the strap is provided with an enlarged terminal medallion portion 36 having a transverse slot 3'! therethrough. The tongue portion 33 after being threaded through the openings 29 and i9 is threaded upwardly through this slot 31 and downwardly through a transverse slot 39 spaced inwardly from the slot 31 a distance equal to the span of the minor loop 23. A further transverse slot 69 is formed in the strap inwardly of the female fastening element, the slot 40 being adapted to register with the slot 33 for receiving the tongue portion 33 therethrough. The major and minor loops are then complete when the male and female elements are snapped together.

There is thus provided a single piece strap for fastening an identification tag to luggage or the like, requiring only a single fastening means, which strap will positively locate the identification tag at one end and which is provided with a separate closed loop for receiving the handle of luggage or a similar part.

The particular type of identification tag here shown is illustrative only, since the improved strap arrangement of this invention may be advantageously used with any type of tag pro- Vided with a slot for receiving the minor loop 23.

It will be understood that modifications and variations may be effected without departing from the scope of the novel concepts of the present invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a structure of the character described, a strap, a first member of a snap fastener secured at one end of said strap, a second member of said snap fastener secured to said strap in spaced relation inwardly from said first member and facing in the opposite direction on said strap, said strap having an opening spaced longitudinally inwardly from said second snap fastening member for receiving said one end of said strap and. said first fastening member therethrough, the other end of said strap having a pair of longitudinally spaced openings for receiving said one end and said first fastening member, said one end being adapted to be threaded through the outer of said spaced openings of said other end and then through the inner of said spaced Openings and then through the opening spaced inwardly from said second fastening element to bring said fastening elements into opposed operative relation for snapping together to provide a closed pair of loops.

2. In a structure of the character described, a strap, a first member of a snap fastener secured at one end of said strap, a second member of said snap fastener secured to said strap in spaced relation inwardly from said first member and facing in the opposite direction on said strap, said strap having an opening spaced longitudinally inwardly from said second snap fastening member for receiving said one end of said strap and said first fastening member therethrough, the other end of said strap having a pair of longitudinally spaced openings for receiving said one end and said first fastening member, said one end being adapted to be threaded through the outer of said spaced openings of said other end and then through the inner of said spaced openings and then through the opening spaced inwardly from said second fastening element to bring said fastening elements into opposed operative relation for snapping together to provide a closed pair of loops, and a shoulder formed on the side of said second snap member toward said first snap member for opposing said other end of said strap when said strap is threaded into operative relation.

, strap when said strap is threaded into operative 3 In a structure of the character described, a

relation, said other end of said strap having an enlarged terminal portion opposing said shoulder for positioning an identification tag or the like therebetween.

4. In a structure of the character described, a strap having male and female members of a snap fastener, one secured adjacent one end of said strap and facing in one direction on said strap, the other being secured intermediate the ends of said strap and facing in the opposite direction, a pair of slots parallel with each other and transversely of said strap adjacent the other end of said strap, and a third slot adjacent said second snap fastener member on the side of said member toward said other end of said strap.

5. In a structure of the character described, a strap passing through an identification tag, members of a snap fastener adjacent one end of the strap, one secured on each side of said identification tag to said strap, three slots in said strap on the portion of the strap beyond said two fastening members, said one end of said strap being threaded through the slot nearest the .op-

posite end, through the intermediate slot and then through the third slot, the fastening members thereafter interconnecting to form a pair of loops, one carrying said identification tag.

MORRIS L. DUSKIN.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,155,566 Hart Oct. 5, 1915 1,423,280 Urich July 18, 1922 2,397,651 Doppelt Apr. '2, 1946 

